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Format: CricInfo Version 1t 
Test # 851 (851/54) 
England v India, 1979, 1st Test 
Edgbaston, Birmingham 
12,13,14,16 July 1979 (5-day match) 
Result: England won by an innings and 83 runs 
        England leads the 4-Test series 1-0 
Toss: England 
Umpires: DJ Constant and BJ Meyer 
Test Debuts: B Reddy (Ind). 
Man of the Match: DI Gower
 
Close of Play:
  Day 1: England 318/3 (Boycott 113*, Gower 43*)
 Day 2: England 633/5d, India 59/2 (Gavaskar 25*)
 Day 3: India 297 and 7/0 (Gavaskar 3*, Chauhan 2*)
England 1st innings                                             R   M   B  4 6
*JM Brearley          c Reddy            b Kapil Dev           24 116  95  2 0
G Boycott             lbw                b Kapil Dev          155 458 341 12 0
DW Randall            c Reddy            b Kapil Dev           15  31  31  3 0
GA Gooch              c Reddy            b Kapil Dev           83 122 109 13 1
DI Gower              not out                                 200 365 279 24 0
IT Botham                                b Kapil Dev           33  33  39  4 1
G Miller              not out                                  63 144 116  5 0
Extras                (b 4, lb 27, w 11, nb 18)                60
Total                 (5 wickets declared, 165.2 overs)       633
DNB: PH Edmonds, +RW Taylor, RGD Willis, M Hendrick.
FoW: 1-66 (Brearley), 2-90 (Randall), 3-235 (Gooch),
     4-426 (Boycott), 5-468 (Botham).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Kapil Dev                   48     15    146      5
Ghavri                      38      5    129      0
Amarnath                    13.2    2     47      0
Chandrasekhar               29      1    113      0
Venkataraghavan             31      4    107      0
Gaekwad                      3      0     12      0
Chauhan                      3      0     19      0
India 1st innings                                               R   M   B  4 6
SM Gavaskar           run out                                  61 178 160  3 0
CPS Chauhan           c Gooch            b Botham               4  16   8  1 0
DB Vengsarkar         c Gooch            b Edmonds             22  58  57  4 0
GR Viswanath          c Botham           b Edmonds             78 213 181  9 0
AD Gaekwad            c Botham           b Willis              25 126 124  3 0
M Amarnath                               b Willis              31  67  47  6 0
N Kapil Dev           lbw                b Botham               1   4   6  0 0
KD Ghavri             c Brearley         b Willis               6  29  25  1 0
+B Reddy                                 b Hendrick            21  75  57  3 0
*S Venkataraghavan    c Botham           b Hendrick            28  52  46  3 2
BS Chandrasekhar      not out                                   0   4   0  0 0
Extras                (b 1, lb 4, w 3, nb 12)                  20
Total                 (all out, 116.1 overs)                  297
FoW: 1-15 (Chauhan), 2-59 (Vengsarkar), 3-129 (Gavaskar),
     4-205 (Viswanath), 5-209 (Gaekwad), 6-210 (Kapil Dev),
     7-229 (Ghavri), 8-251 (Amarnath), 9-294 (Venkataraghavan),
     10-297 (Reddy).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Willis                      24      9     69      3
Botham                      26      4     86      2
Hendrick                    24.1    9     36      2
Edmonds                     26     11     60      2
Boycott                      5      1      8      0
Miller                      11      3     18      0
India 2nd innings (following on)                                R   M   B  4 6
SM Gavaskar           c Gooch            b Hendrick            68 137 117 10 0
CPS Chauhan           c Randall          b Willis              56 167 142  8 0
DB Vengsarkar         c Edmonds          b Hendrick             7  32  24  0 0
GR Viswanath          c Taylor           b Botham              51 133 119  6 0
AD Gaekwad            c Gooch            b Botham              15  60  54  3 0
M Amarnath            lbw                b Botham              10  77  69  1 0
N Kapil Dev           c Hendrick         b Botham              21  18  17  4 0
KD Ghavri             c Randall          b Hendrick             4  30  25  0 0
+B Reddy              lbw                b Hendrick             0   7   1  0 0
*S Venkataraghavan    lbw                b Botham               0   4   6  0 0
BS Chandrasekhar      not out                                   0   4   3  0 0
Extras                (b 7, lb 12, nb 2)                       21
Total                 (all out, 95.4 overs)                   253
FoW: 1-124 (Gavaskar), 2-136 (Chauhan), 3-136 (Vengsarkar),
     4-182 (Gaekwad), 5-227 (Viswanath), 6-240 (Amarnath),
     7-249 (Kapil Dev), 8-250 (Reddy), 9-251 (Venkataraghavan),
     10-253 (Ghavri).
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Willis                      14      3     45      1
Botham                      29      8     70      5
Hendrick                    20.4    8     45      4
Edmonds                     17      6     37      0
Miller                       9      1     27      0
Gooch                        6      3      8      0
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Team Pages:
England,
India.
 
Ground Page:
Edgbaston, Birmingham
 
England Player Pages:
JM Brearley,
G Boycott,
DW Randall,
GA Gooch,
DI Gower,
IT Botham,
G Miller,
PH Edmonds,
RW Taylor,
RGD Willis,
M Hendrick.
 
India Player Pages:
SM Gavaskar,
CPS Chauhan,
DB Vengsarkar,
GR Viswanath,
AD Gaekwad,
M Amarnath,
N Kapil Dev,
KD Ghavri,
B Reddy,
S Venkataraghavan,
BS Chandrasekhar.
 
Match Officials' Pages:
DJ Constant,
BJ Meyer.
 
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